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Solar eclipse of December 14, 2001

An annular solar eclipse occurred on December 14, 2001.[1][2][3] A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. It was visible across the Pacific Ocean, southern Costa Rica, northern Nicaragua and San Andrés Island, Colombia. The central shadow passed just south of Hawaii in early morning and ended over Central America near sunset.

Solar eclipse of December 14, 2001
Partial from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma0.4089
Magnitude0.9681
Maximum eclipse
Duration233 s (3 min 53 s)
Coordinates0°36′N 130°42′W / 0.6°N 130.7°W / 0.6; -130.7
Max. width of band126 km (78 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse20:53:01
References
Saros132 (45 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9512

The moon's apparent diameter was near the average diameter because the eclipse occurred 7.9 days after perigee (December 6, 2001 at 22:49 UTC) and 6.7 days before apogee (December 21, 2001 at 13:03 UTC).

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Related eclipses edit

Eclipses of 2001 edit

Tzolkinex edit

Half-Saros edit

Tritos edit

Solar Saros 132 edit

Inex edit

Solar eclipses 2000–2003 edit

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.[4]

Partial solar eclipses on February 5, 2000 and July 31, 2000 occur in the previous lunar year set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2000 to 2003
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
117 2000 July 01
 
Partial (south) 		−1.28214 122 2000 December 25
 
Partial (north) 		1.13669
127
 
Totality from Lusaka, Zambia 		2001 June 21
 
Total 		−0.57013 132
 
Partial from Minneapolis, MN 		2001 December 14
 
Annular 		0.40885
137
 
Partial from Los Angeles, CA 		2002 June 10
 
Annular 		0.19933 142
 
Totality from Woomera 		2002 December 04
 
Total 		−0.30204
147
 
Culloden, Scotland 		2003 May 31
 
Annular 		0.99598 152 2003 November 23
 
Total 		−0.96381

Saros 132 edit

This eclipse is a part of Saros cycle 132, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 13, 1208. It contains annular eclipses from March 17, 1569 through March 12, 2146, hybrid on March 22, 2164 and April 3, 2182 and total eclipses from April 14, 2200 through June 19, 2308. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 25, 2470. The longest duration of annularity was 6 minutes, 56 seconds on May 9, 1641, and totality will be 2 minutes, 14 seconds on June 8, 2290. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s descending node.

Series members 28–50 occur between 1690 and 2100:
28 29 30
 
June 11, 1695 		 
June 22, 1713 		 
July 4, 1731
31 32 33
 
July 14, 1749 		 
July 25, 1767 		 
August 5, 1785
34 35 36
 
August 17, 1803 		 
August 27, 1821 		 
September 7, 1839
37 38 39
 
September 18, 1857 		 
September 29, 1875 		 
October 9, 1893
40 41 42
 
October 22, 1911 		 
November 1, 1929 		 
November 12, 1947
43 44 45
 
November 23, 1965 		 
December 4, 1983 		 
December 14, 2001
46 47 48
 
December 26, 2019 		 
January 5, 2038 		 
January 16, 2056
49 50
 
January 27, 2074 		 
February 7, 2092

Tritos series edit

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Metonic cycle edit

The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.

21 events between July 22, 1971 and July 22, 2047
July 21–22 May 9–11 February 26–27 December 14–15 October 2–3
116 118 120 122 124
 
July 22, 1971 		 
May 11, 1975 		 
February 26, 1979 		 
December 15, 1982 		 
October 3, 1986
126 128 130 132 134
 
July 22, 1990 		 
May 10, 1994 		 
February 26, 1998 		 
December 14, 2001 		 
October 3, 2005
136 138 140 142 144
 
July 22, 2009 		 
May 10, 2013 		 
February 26, 2017 		 
December 14, 2020 		 
October 2, 2024
146 148 150 152 154
 
July 22, 2028 		 
May 9, 2032 		 
February 27, 2036 		 
December 15, 2039 		 
October 3, 2043
156
 
July 22, 2047

References edit

  1. ^ "Eclipse anular". La Prensa. 2001-12-09. p. 71. Retrieved 2023-10-25 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Moon shadow". South Florida Sun Sentinel. 2001-12-15. p. 15. Retrieved 2023-10-25 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Hawaii, Costa Rica had best views". The Orlando Sentinel. 2001-12-15. p. 35. Retrieved 2023-10-25 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

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